Quotes About Mortality

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.

"The best of men are just men at best.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

The closer I move To death, one man through his sundered hulks, The louder the sun blooms And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults.

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why Should wise men grieve to know that they must die? The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.

They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.